lijenuwe-

This lexeme is found once in the poetical inscription engraved on the lion sarcophagus of Antiphellos, dated on stylistic grounds to the beginning of the 4^th century BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91), and in the inscription of the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically to around 400 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).

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The attestation lijenuwez is misspelled as lijendwez (Schürr 2018b:58, 60, 71), and therefore corrected to lijenu^!wez.

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The substantive lijenuwe- has been semantically interpreted as ‘place of naiads, nymphaeum’ by Melchert (DLL:120) and Schürr 2005a:143 (Schürr 2018b:71). This is adequate for the context (for which see Sasseville 2021a:48):

                xba[da]siz tuwemedi : lijenuwez : muwaxã (TL 44d.51-52)

                ‘I strengthened the nymphaea of the river-valleys with standing offerings.’

For the attestation in TL 55.1, Schürr 2005a:143 (and Schürr 1997c:137f.) takes lijenuwi as the accusative singular of the adjective lijanuwe/i- agreeing with mlu (some kind of offering), which is formally possible, although a dative singular of the substantive lijenuwe- is contextually more satisfactory.

                [eb]ạṇ̃ṇu­ : mlu=t(e)=ene welputi : pixre : lijenuwi : pleliz : madrane : wirasajaja tm͂qrẽ : lijaiz (TL 55.1)

‘This votive offering here, Pigres welpu-s it to the nymphaeum, so that the nymphs of Phellos may madrane the wirasajaja tm͂qrẽ.’

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The noun lijenuwe- has a non-mutating common gender stem in -e-, for which see Sasseville 2021a:206-214.

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For the lemma head, see Lyc. B lijã(na)-.